Books -- Past reads of the book discussion groups

Past reads

A list of past reads from both morning and evening book groups at the library.

Albright, Madeleine The Mighty and the Almighty 1/2007
Alireza, Marianne At the Drop of a Veil 11/1997
Allende, Isabel Eva Luna 11/2001
Allende, Isabel Of Love and Shadows 12/1993
Angelou, Maya Heart of a Woman 2/1995
Ansay, A. Manette Midnight Champagne 4/2001
Ansay, A. Manette Vinegar Hill 3/2001
Atkinson, Kate Behind the Scenes at the Museum 7/1998
Atwood, Margaret Handmaid’s Tale 8/1993
Benjamin, David The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked 11/07
Berg, Elizabeth What We Keep 2/1999
Binchy, Maeve Copper Beech 3/1996
Binchy, Maeve Firefly Summer 4/1996
Bohjalian, Chris Midwives 3/2000
Bourdain, Anthony Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 5/2005
Boyle, T.C. Water Music 4/2005
Bragg, Rick All Over but the Shoutin’ 6/2003
Brookner, Anita Hotel du Lac 7/2001
Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code 6/2004
Brown, Rita Mae Bingo 3/1998
Bryson, Bill In A Sunburned Country 1/2004
Bryson,Bill I’m A Stranger Here Myself 5/2004
Buck, Pearl All Under Heaven 1/1996
Buck, Pearl The Good Earth 2/1996
Buford, Bill Heat: an amateur's adventures as a kitchen slave, line cook,
pasta-maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany 3/2008
Burnley, Judith Unrepentant Women 6/1992
Carey, Peter The True History of the Kelly Gang 9/2005
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop 8/2000
Cather, Willa My Antonia 2/1992
Chase, Joan During the Reign of the Queen of Persia 4/1989
Ciaverini, Jennifer Circle of Quilters 6/2006
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street 6/2002
Cogan, Priscilla Winona’s Web: a Novel of Discovery 4/1998
Colapinto, John As Nature Made Him 10/2007
Conway, Jill Ker True North: a Memoir 11/1998
Cornwell, Patricia Body of Evidence 1/1997
Cross, Donna Woolfolk Pope Joan 3/2005
Danticat, Edwidge Breath, Eyes, Memory 10/1998
Davidson, Robyn Tracks 6/1993
Davies, Robertson Fifth Business 9/1993
De Bernieres, Louis Corelli’s Mandolin 7/2003
Delany, Sarah L. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters 5/1995
Derleth, August Pick-A-Book (any title by Derleth) 2/2005
Derleth, August Walden West 2/1997
DeVries, Peter Prick of Noon 3/1995
Diamant, Anita The Red Tent 7/2005
Dickinson, Emily Selected Poems 10/1989
Dillard, Annie American Childhood 8/1997
Doerr, Harriet Stones From Ibarra 1/1994
Doig, Ivan English Creek 8/2002
Doig, Ivan This House of Sky 2/1989
Dopp, Peggy Hanson and Barbara Vroman Tomorrow is a River 8/1994
Douglas, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas 12/1989
du Maurier, Daphne The King’s General 4/1994
Duncan, David Brothers K 7/1997
Durrell, Lawrence Justine (Alexandria Quartet No. 1) 5/1993
Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals 10/1996
Eco, Umberto The Name of the Rose 11/2005
Edgerton, Clyde Walking Across Egypt 5/1999
Erdrich, Louise Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 3/2003
Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine 6/1995
Evanovich, Janet One for the Money 6/1997
Ferber, Edna Saratoga Trunk 4/1995
Fielding, Joy Tell Me No Secrets 8/1996
Foer, Jonathan Safran Everything is Illuminated 3/2004
Forster, Margaret Lady’s Maid 4/1993
Francis, Dick To The Hilt 6/2005
Frayn, Michael Headlong 9/2003
Friedman, Thomas From Beirut to Jerusalem 11/1992
Gaarder, Jostein Sophie’s World: a Novel About the History of Philosophy 4/1999
Gaines, Ernest Lesson Before Dying 11/1999
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel General in His Labyrinth 10/1993
Gibbons, Kaye On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon 1/1999
Gilbert, Elizabeth Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for
everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia 5/2008
Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine Carey Cheaper by the Dozen 5/1994
Gilman, Dorothy Incident at Badamya 4/1990
Godden, Rumer In This House of Brede 4/1997
Grafton, Sue “A”is for Alibi 12/1992
Graham, Katharine Personal History 8/2003
Greenlaw, Linda Hungry Ocean 9/2004
Guest, Judith Ordinary People 3/1989
Hamill, Pete Snow in August 8/1998
Hamilton, Jane Short History of A Prince 8/1999
Hamilton, Jane When Madeline was Young 4/2008
Hammett, Dashiell The Maltese Falcon 4/2004 and 9/2008
Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun 2/23/89
Harr, Jonathan The Lost Painting 9/2007
Haruf, Kent Plainsong 4/2001
Hayes, Howard Dark Romance of Dian Fossey 6/1992
Heat Moon, William Least Blue Highways 11/1988
Heath, Chip and Dan Heath Made to stick: why some ideas survive and others die 2/2008
Hegi, Ursula Floating in My Mother's Palm 8/2007
Hegi, Ursula Stones From the River 6/2000
Hemingway, Ernest In Our Time 11/1989
Henry, Sue Murder at the Five Finger Light 1/2006
Hillerman, Tony Dark Wind 3/1990
Hoeg, Peter Smilla’s Sense of Snow 9/1997
Hulme, Kathryn Nun’s Story 7/1994
Irving, John Widow for One Year 1/2000
Johnson, Diane Le Divorce 10/2004
Kaufman, Bel Up the Down Staircase 1/1995
Keleny, Christine Rosebloom 8/2008
Kimmel, Haven A Girl Named Zippy 12/2006
King, Cassandra The Same Sweet Girls 5/2007
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams 7/2008
Kingsolver, Barbara High Tide in Tucson 4/2000
Kingston, Maxine Hong China Men 9/1992
Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone 5/2001
Landvik, Lorna Welcome to the Great Mysterious 2/2006
Lash, Joseph Eleanor: The Years Alone 2/1993
Laurence, Margaret Diviners 8/1993
Lee, Harper To Kill A Mockingbird 2/2007
LeGuin, Ursula Lathe of Heaven 7/2002
Lemberger, Mark Crime of Magnitude 10/1994
Leopold, Aldo Sand County Almanac 11/1988
Logan, Ben Land Remembers 10/1988
MacLean, Norman River Runs Through It 4/1992
Malcolm X Autobiography of Malcolm X 1/1990
Martelk, Yann The Life of Pi 3/2006
Man, John Survival of Jan Little 4/1990
Maxwell, William So Long, See You Tomorrow 9/1995
Mayle, Peter Anything Considered 1/2005
Mayle, Peter French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew 10/2002
McBride, James The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother 9/2000
McCaig, Donald Nop’s Trails 11/1995
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes 6/1999
McDermott, Alice At Weddings and Wakes 7/1995
McDermott, Alice Charming Billy 2/2000
Mead, Margaret Blackberry Winter 7/1992
Millard, Candice River of Doubt 11/2006
Miller, Sue The Distinguished Guest 9/1999
Moffett, James (editor) Points of View: Anthology of Short Stories 4/1989
Moorehead, Alan The White Nile 3/1994
Morgan, Janet Edwina Mountbatten: a Life of Her Own 8/1995
Morrison, Toni Jazz 2/1998
Muir, John Story of My Boyhood and Youth 2/1992 and 9/1996
Munro, Alice Open Secrets 11/2004
Nazario, Sonia Enrique's Journey 1/2008
Norris, Kathleen Dakota: A Spiritual Geography 3/1999
O’Brien, Tim In the Lake of the Woods 5/1997
Orlean, Susan The Orchid Thief 11/2002
Peck, M. Scott A Bed by the Window 7/2000
Perry, Anne Cater Street Hangman 7/1996
Peters, Elizabeth Crocodiles on the Sandbank 11/1992
Pickett, Rex Sideways 10/2005
Picoult, Jodi My Sister's Keeper 4/2006
Pilcher, Rosamunde Shell Seekers 2/2001
Pirsig, Robert M Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 7/2004
Pollan, Michael Botany of Desire 10/2003
Pym, Barbara Crampton Hodnet 3/1997
Quindlen, Anna Object Lessons 9/1998
Rath, Sara Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages 10/2006
Read, Miss Friends at Thrush Green 11/1996
Reichl, Ruth Comfort Me With Apples 1/2003
Ridge, Martin (editor) Frederick Jackson Turner 10/1988
Rolvaag, Ole E. Giants in the Earth 3/1992
Roy, Arundhati God of Small Things 10/1999 and 9/2002
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye 10/2001
Sedaris, David Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 8/2005
Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day 4/2004
Seierstad, Asne The Bookseller of Kabul 4/2007
Senna, Danzy Caucasia 5/2002
Shields, Jody The Fig Eater 6/2001
Shreve, Anita The Pilot's Wife 10/2000
Sides, Hampton Ghost Soldiers 9/2006
Smiley, Jane One Thousand Acres 6/1996
Smith, Linnea La Doctora 5/2003
Sobel, Dava Galileo’s Daughter 2/2003
Stegner, Wallace All the Little Live Things 1/1998
Stegner, Wallace Crossing to Safety 3/1992
Stegner, Wallace Sense of Place 1/1992 and 9/1988
Tey, Josephine Daughter of Time 10/1997
Thayer, Nancy Three Women at the Water's Edge 6/1998
Theroux, Paul Riding the Iron Rooster 2/1994
Thurman, Judith Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller 8/1992
Toole, John Kennedy Confederacy of Dunces 5/1998
Twain, Mark Great Short Works of Mark Twain 10/1989
Tyler, Anne Breathing Lessons 10/1995
Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 8/2001
Various authors Assorted books about Queen Victoria 5/1996
Vollers, Maryanne Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival... 3/2007
Vreeland, Susan Girl in Hyacinth Blue 2/2004
Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle 5/2006
Wallace, Irving Word 9/1994
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited 7/1999
Weiner, Tim Legacy of Ashes 9/2008
Wells, Rebecca Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 11/2000
White, Bailey Sleeping at the Starlite Motel 8/2004
Williams, Tennessee Glass Menagerie 2/1989
Winchester, Simon Professor and the Madman 11/2003
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse 9/1989
Wouk, Herman Caine Mutiny 6/1994

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